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New Study Proves Truckers With OSA Are More Likely to Be Involved in Accidents

Recently, the University of Minnesota, Morris, with help from various contributions
from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute and the Harvard T.H. Chan
School of Public Health, studied a new method used by Schneider, a truckload
and transportation service.
The study concluded that Schneider’s new methods, composed of the
following two practices, have caused positive outcomes to surface.

Schneider began monitoring sleep apnea treatment as part of their program

What Type of Treatment are Schneider Truck Drivers Utilizing?

As treatment, Schneider truck drivers who suffer from sleep apnea receive
auto-adjusting positive airway pressure treatment (APAP), which can be
used in the sleeper berths of their trucks or in their homes. At the end
of the study, researchers concluded that drivers who did not adhere to
the sleep apnea treatment program laid out by Schneider were five times
more likely to be involved in preventable,
serious truck accidents than those who did adhere to the treatment program. In addition, researchers
found that truck drivers with obstructive sleep apnea who abided by the
treatment program had similar statistics as those drivers without obstructive
sleep disorders.

The lead author of the article and the professor at the University of Minnesota
added that according to statistics, if 1,000 truck drivers were evaluated
over the course of a year, the untreated truck drivers suffering from
obstructive sleep apnea would be involved in 70 accidents. However, if
the drivers with sleep apnea were treated on a normal basis, only 14 accidents
would occur.

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